Someone gets vaccinated and a short time later they get a different virus and they tend to associate that illness with their prior vaccination. They confuse the other viral infection with the flu.

With the flu, basically you're bed-bound.

It's been developing for some time. We're looking at it at other institutions.

If somebody thinks he's sick, he can actually think himself into being sick. An illness can be just as real to you as if it were documented on a CAT scan.

Traditional sick leave policies that allow time off only for illness may put an employee in the position of having to conjure up a cold at the last minute to get the time off they really need for taking a parent or child to a pre-arranged medical appointment. The CCH survey found that employers increasingly are adopting programs that recognize that the issues keeping an employee away from work often have nothing to do with a stuffy nose.

When I can't stretch to kiss my boots, I know it'll be time to hang them up!